superposableadj.

1806 J. Bonnycastle Treat. Plane & Spherical Trigonom. 367 There may be two spherical triangles, as well as two solids, or two solid angles, which are equal in all their constituent parts, and yet are not superposable, or equal by coincidence.

1870 W. Chauvenet Elem. Geom. viii. 265 The triangles..are mutually equilateral, and also isosceles; therefore they are superposable and are equal in area.

1882 G. M. Minchin Uniplanar Kinematics 68 Any two possible acceleration systems in uniplanar motion are superposable in a single acceleration system.

1920 E. F. Smith & F. Hedges tr. E. Duclaux Pasteur i. vi. 25 The two hands are not superposable and one cannot put the right glove on the left hand, nor inversely.

1957 R. H. Thomson Naturally Occurring Quinones v. 266 A crystalline fluorescent solid..whose ultra-violet spectrum was almost superposable on that of picene.

2002 R. E. Spier Sci. & Technol. Ethics vii. 156 Quantum theorists have used the concept of an unknown random event to posit the existence of multiple superposable universes.

1876 Messenger Math. 5 120 Its superposability to the cubic and dodecahedral division is also worth notice.

1913 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 103 839 There are evidently two vertical planes of symmetry cutting diagonally through the ring carbon atoms, and it might be objected that the presence of these two planes of symmetry are in reality the cause of the superposability.

2001 Psychol. Sci. 12 242/2 The superposability of the cumulative distributions shown in Figure 2b.